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JKPL offering Chamorro language classes
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- Instructor Joanne Aldan from the Bank of Hawaii presents to the families of the Koblerville Youth Learning Center. (Contributed Photo)
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- From left standing, Gil Birnbrich, Mike Lee, Brady Hammond, Tim Aguon, and Stephen Sablan. Sitting is Chamorro language instructor Rita Demapan. (Contributed Photo)
Are you interested in learning the basics of Chamorro? Or do you speak Chamorro or understand Chamorro, and just want to practice your Chamorro language skills?
Well, CNMI Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy Program is pleased to offer a free Beginner’s Chamorro Literacy Class held at your friendly Joeten-Kiyu Public Library this summer!
Read and borrow books translated into Chamorro from our award-winning Motheread/Fatheread curriculum. Classes are held every Tuesday and Thursday for the month of July from 5pm to 6pm.
Please call 235-7319/783-7678/285-9666 or email us at cnmimotheread@gmail.com and sign up today.
‘Be part of the fun’
The Friends of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library are library supporters whose objectives are to:
• Promote and support the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library as a valuable asset for the CNMI
• Enhance the facilities, services and resources of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library service
• Access non-government funding sources
• Support the freedom to read and free access to information for all
If you share our goals, then please visit your friendly Joeten-Kiyu Public Library this Saturday, July 16, 2016 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm and be part of the fun!
Free financial classes
As part of a series of community summer seminars, CNMI Motheread/Fatheread’s Family Literacy Program in partnership with the Bank of Hawaii presented a series of Free Financial literacy classes this past Saturday, July 9, from 3pm to 4pm at your friendly Joeten-Kiyu Public Library; and Tuesday, July 12, from 10am to 11am at the Koblerville Youth Learning Center.
Topnotch financial instructors from the Bank of Hawaii—Herminio Matsumoto and Joanne Aldan—taught the hour-long seminar covering topics such as the “Basics of Banking” and the “ABCs of Credit.”
Course materials and child care (for ages 4 years old to 11 years old) were provided for adults who participated in our financial literacy seminar. CNMI Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy Program is administered by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council in partnership with the CNMI Public School System and the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library. (PR)
